The January HIT Standards Committee

The January HIT Standards Committee focused on two important topics, the future of the Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework and the xtandards needed for provenance i.e. who generated the data and I can I trust it?Stan Huff and Arien Malec presented the process that the Standards & Interoperability Task Force  will use to evaluate the best way to harmonize standards in the future.   Typically Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) create and curate standards but sometimes there is a need to select among competing standards or combine the work of multiple SDOs into an implementation guide.   The Healthcare IT Standards Panel (HITSP) did this kind of harmonization.   When HITSP was  sunsetted during the transition from the Bush to the Obama administration, the S&I Framework was created to fill the harmonization role, since the Healthcare IT Standards Committee (HITSC) served in advisory capacity to ONC, not doing the granular work of implementation guide writing.     Questions to be asked  by the Task Force include:Is there a continued need for the S&I Framework (or an equivalent process) to advance standards and implementation specification development?The task force will evaluate the “What” (what should be done) and the “How” (by whom, in what forum, with what processes)We all look forward to their work.Lisa Gallagher presented the work of the Data Provenance Task Force.  Their  remarkable ...
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